Wayfaring definitions

wā'fâr'ĭng
Traveling, especially on foot.
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Travelling, especially on foot.
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Travel, especially on foot.
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Present participle of wayfare.
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Origin of wayfaring

From Middle English waifaringe journeying from Old English wegfarende weg way way farende present participle of faran to go on a journey per-2 in Indo-European roots

Sentence Examples

  • trans., English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, by L.

  • Shortly before his death Edward founded Christ's Hospital in the Grey Friars, and gave the old palace of Bridewell to the city " for the lodging of poor wayfaring people, the correction of vagabonds and disorderly persons, and for finding them work."

  • The medieval mind was only too prone to look on morality as a highly technical art, quite as difficult as medicine or chancery law - a path where wayfaring men were certain to err, with no guide but their unsophisticated conscience.

  • Wayfaring Tree (Viburnum Lantana) - One of the two kinds native of Britain, and frequent in hedgerows and copses, especially in chalk or limestone soils.

  • The Society for the Improvement of the Poor, constructed and opened (1921) the Wayfaring hotel to accommodate 500 men.

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